A conservative Christian group is leading an effort to require Ohio voters to present photo IDs before casting their ballots.

Chris Long with the Ohio Christian Alliance says his group supports a bill sponsored by Republican State Representative John Becker that requires voters to present a valid driverâ€™s license or official state issued identification card before they would be allowed to vote.

And Long says his group is going to collect the signatures needed to require lawmakers to either pass the plan, or allow his group to put it on the ballot.

“If they pass the initiative as is then mission accomplished, we are pleased. And thatâ€™s happened, for instance, with the community defense act a couple of years ago. And that was enacted into law,” Long said.Â ”But if they do nothing in those 90 days, if partisan bickering again degenerates this issue where better minds cannot prevail, then at the end of 90 days, we will have the opportunity to collect another 250,000 to 300,000 more signatures to place it on the ballot in 2015 and let the people of Ohio decide.”

Democrats have fought the photo ID requirement in the past because they say it will disenfranchise low income voters. Ed FitzGerald, the Democrat running for Ohio Governor, says he doesnâ€™t like the Christian Coalitionâ€™s plan.

“I don’t know what voter ID has to do with Christianity and I haven’t seen their proposal but again, itâ€™s another area where there are a few states in this country that are looking at restricting voting rights,”Â FitzGerald said.Â ”As our own Secretary of State has said, thereâ€™s not any kind of significant voter identification fraud in this state so I’m not sure what problem it is really addressing”

The Secretary of State says about .002 percent of all ballots cast in the 2012 presidential election showed evidence of possible fraud.

Democrats are working on putting their own voting-related issue on the ballot. Among other things, it would make current voter identification requirements â€“ which do not include showing photo ID â€“ part of the Ohio constitution.

A Wisconsin news organization and an advocacy group identified Stephen and Nancy Einhorn as the billboard buyers. The venture capitalist and Tea Party supporter now say they placed the billboards as a public service.

The anonymous buyers of a controversial series of â€œvoter fraudâ€ billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin have been identified.

Milwaukee resident Stephen Einhorn is Principal of Capital Midwest Fund, president of Einhorn Associates, and serves on the Milwaukee Art Museumâ€™s board. He also gave $25,000 to Freedomworks for America, a conservative Political Action Committee thatâ€™s endorsed candidates such as Indiana Senatorial hopeful Richard Mourduck and Ohio state treasurer Josh Mandel.

His wife, Nancy Einhorn, serves on the board of the Milwaukee Ballet and recently gave more than $30,000 to the RNC. Sheâ€™s also given over $3,000 to a couple Tea Party-backed House members in Wisconsin.

An African-American news organization, TheGrio, and an activist group, One Wisconsin Now, say they did a joint investigation to uncover the Einhorns. The couple bought 175 billboards in battleground states Ohio and Wisconsin, which were placed in largely poor, African-American neighborhoods with the phrase, â€œVoter Fraud is a felonyâ€ and a giant gavel.

In a statement, the Einhorns say they placed the billboards as a public service, as voter fraud undermines the democratic process. But many African-American leaders and ex-felon advocates liken it to Jim Crow tactics, meant to scare and disenfranchise certain voters.

After several weeks of outcry, the billboards were all taken down. Many have been replaced with new ones, asserting that voting is a right, not a crime.

A Franklin County grand jury has indicted three people for allegedly voting more than once in past elections.

Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said the indictments Tuesday charged the three with felony voter fraud. All allegedly tried to vote twice by absentee ballot, two of them in the 2010 general election and one in the 2008 primary election.

Illegal voting is a 4th-degree felony, punishable by up to 18 months in prison.

The three cases were referred to the prosecutor’s office by a unanimous vote of the county board of elections in Columbus. The county referred cases of suspected double voting to the prosecutor’s office in 2007 and 2009. Both resulted in convictions.